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But this I say, brethren, the timeo is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;*

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1 Peter 4:7• ⁷But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers; (1 Peter 4:7)

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2 Peter 3:8‑9• ⁸But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
⁹The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:8‑9)

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Job 14:1‑2• ¹Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
²He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not. (Job 14:1‑2)

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Psa. 39:4‑7• ⁴Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
⁵Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
⁶Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
⁷And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee. (Psa. 39:4‑7)

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Psa. 90:5‑10• ⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:
⁶In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
⁹For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.
¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:5‑10)

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Psa. 103:15‑16• ¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:
¹⁶For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more. (Psa. 103:15‑16)

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Eccl. 6:12• ¹²For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun? (Eccl. 6:12)

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Eccl. 9:10• ¹⁰Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest. (Eccl. 9:10)

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Rom. 13:11‑12• ¹¹This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that *we* should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
¹²The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. (Rom. 13:11‑12)

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Heb. 13:13‑14• ¹³therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach:
¹⁴for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the coming one. (Heb. 13:13‑14)

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1 Peter 4:7• ⁷But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers; (1 Peter 4:7)

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2 Peter 3:8‑9• ⁸But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
⁹The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:8‑9)

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1 John 2:17• ¹⁷And the world is passing, and its lust, but he that does the will of God abides for eternity. (1 John 2:17)

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Eccl. 12:7‑8,13‑14• ⁷and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.
⁸Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.
¹³Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.
¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. (Eccl. 12:7‑8,13‑14)

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Isa. 24:1‑2• ¹Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
²And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken. (Isa. 24:1‑2)

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Isa. 40:6‑8• ⁶A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry?--All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever. (Isa. 40:6‑8)

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James 4:13‑16• ¹³Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,
¹⁴ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ( for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)
¹⁵instead of your saying, If the Lord should so will and we should live, we will also do this or that.
¹⁶But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. (James 4:13‑16)

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1 Peter 1:24• ²⁴Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen; (1 Peter 1:24)

• The time is shortened henceforth (that is, as I suppose, since Christ's death and the call of the church) in order that the believer should hold all but Christ with a loose hand. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 7:15-24” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wivesc, be as not having any:

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It may be translated "for the rest [I say it], in order that even they who have wives."

W. Kelly Translation

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But this I say, brethren, the season is straitened: henceforth that both those that have wives be as having none,